Elements on a Mac

I just started using a Mac so I am very green. If someone could offer some suggestions:
1. I can't seem to import to Elements from iPhoto where I store my pictures. Right now I'm creating folders on my Desktop and importing from there. What would a simple workflow involve to accomplishing this task.
2. I'm using Elements 6 and the "Effects" palette appears empty. The palette shows up, but all the icons along the top that appear when using it in a PC are not there on my Mac.
Your advice is much appriciated.
Thank you
DW

Okay. In that case, first try this: Quit PSE. Open a finder window. Click on your hard drive in the list on the left up at the top of the window (macintosh hard drive if you haven't renamed it). Then go to library>Application Support>Adobe>Photoshop Elements>6.0>Locale>en_US (this will be different if you aren't in the US) and delete the file mediaDatabase.db3.
Now restart Elements but don't do anything. Wait several minutes to see if the panel content will rebuild itself. Don't use the program till you see the icons and such in the panel.
Edited to correct typo in file path.

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eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0xa10e2c0c ecx: 0xbffff0dc edx: 0x93982952
edi: 0xa13a31a8 esi: 0x00000006 ebp: 0xbffff0f8 esp: 0xbffff0dc
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   ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
cr2: 0x99fe3e46
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Error Code:      0x00080148
Trap Number:     132
Binary Images:
    0x1000 -   0x24cff7 +"com.Adobe.ESD.AdobeUpdaterApplication" (Adobe Updater 5.1.0.1082 - 5.1.0.1082) <3D59867C-5698-4D46-AD1F-C357C48B75AA> /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities.localized/*/Adobe Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Updater
0x3ce000 -   0x3d9fff com.apple.CommerceCore (1.0 - 42) <D28DD970-4B69-3848-9BCC-3C67323B3D9C> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CommerceCor e.framework/Versions/A/CommerceCore
0x493f000 - 0x4964ff9 com.apple.framework.familycontrols (4.1 - 410) <A33A97EE-C735-38BA-9B49-5D78DAA3DEDA> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Versions/A/FamilyControls
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0x90136000 - 0x9052effb com.apple.CoreGraphics (1.600.0 - 599.35.4) <2B46D887-CAED-30F3-B009-1EBF0C71DC2E> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics
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